
Joel Plaskett 's got balls. I get dozens of submissions a week, and this motherlover sends me a three-CD album? I'm already annoyed at the guy, since I honor my promise to artists that I will listen to everything that is sent to me. But I'm one-and-a-half discs in before I realize how long I've been listening. And my kid is singing along, even though he's never heard it before (and tends to be finicky). Plaskett is (another) Canadian singer songwriter, who sounds in many ways like Jackson Browne —straight ahead, easy rock—but he throws [...]